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CONTENTS AUGUST 26, 2015 ■ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 3 COVER STORY GREG ANDERSON ‘I CAN GET A LOT BETTER’ Lauren Carlini’s mark on Wisconsin’s volleyball program is unmistakable, but the junior has no interest in looking back at the legacy she’s building. Her focus is squarely on the future. FEATURES WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN [FOCUS] TOP ‘TEN’ TALENT The week's best photos The decathlon is a long, grueling BY THE NUMBERS event. Zach Ziemek’s rise from a Facts and figures on UW DAVID STLUKA DAVID Big Ten champion to a Beijing-bound member of Team USA happened fast. WHAT TO WATCH Where to catch the Badgers ASK THE BADGERS PAUL CHRYST: PART TWO Advice for freshmen A START, NOT AN END BADGERING Troy Fumagalli (Football) Paul Chryst’s coaching career may have come full circle with his return STLUKA DAVID to Wisconsin, but that doesn’t mean INSIDE FOOTBALL Stave once again leads way he’s crossed the finish line just yet. 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LUCAS AT LARGE BY MIKE LUCAS • UWBADGERS.COM Ogunbowale hits right notes in backfield here may not be another trying to make a splash and an at work between Clement and quarterback-tailback com­ impact ― about 10 days out from Ogunbowale given the latter was Tbination in college football the opener against Alabama in a good friend and roommate of that can measure up with Joel Dallas ― only now it’s on offense Melvin Gordon, whose departure Stave and Dare Ogunbowale as Corey Clement’s backup. “I’m to the NFL has brought Clement ― on the keyboard. Both have just trying to play football,” he and Ogunbowale closer together. played the piano since they were said. “I don’t try to think about “Me and Corey did a lot of ex­ youngsters. “I’ve taken lessons the difference in the position that tra work in addition to the sum­ since I was 7 and still play all the I’m in now. Last year, I was com­ mer conditioning,” Ogunbowale time,” said Ogunbowale. “At the peting. This year, I’m competing. said. “It was a lot of mental stuff, bowl game, they had a beautiful Not much has changed. Just my whether it be working out late at grand piano in the hotel and Joel jersey number.” night or just watching a lot of film. and I played a duet.” Ogunbowale, who now wears We definitely put in some extra Ogunbowale enjoys playing No. 23, has been pushing himself hours to make sure that we were the blues, which matched his while getting a push from Taiwan ready to go in (training) camp. mood at about this time last year. Deal, a redshirt freshman, also Corey’s one of my best friends, The Badgers were still in train­ vying for game reps as a backup. I’m always with him. He works ing camp and about 10 days out There’s an interesting dynamic hard and he’s a good person.” from their opener against LSU in When a wide-eyed Gordon was Houston and Ogunbowale wasn’t still figuring out his role within making much headway as a re- the offense ― he had 82 carries serve defensive back. (At about through his first two seasons in the same time last August, Stave a combined 17 game appear- was singing the blues after un- ances because of an injury as ceremoniously losing his starting a freshman ― he was schooled job to Tanner McEvoy.) on the Wisconsin running back “I was still a DB and still tradition by Montee Ball and fighting for a special teams James White. Gordon spot,” recalled Ogunbowale, was conscientious, a who was then an obscure student of the game, walk-on from Milwaukee and passed his knowl­ wearing No. 18 and trying edge on to Clement to draw some positive atten- and Ogunbowale. tion. “My mindset was on “Obviously, me not having making a splash on special a lot of running back experi­ teams and taking advantage ence,” said Ogunbowale ,who of every rep. I got lost on last played the position when he the depth chart a little was in the fifth grade, “it was bit, so I just wanted to nice to have Melvin help me make sure I made an out with just the mentality of a impact where I could.” running back ― thinking like a A year later, he’s still running back and having LUCAS AT LARGE PAGE 1 OF 3 LUCAS AT LARGE BY MIKE LUCAS • UWBADGERS.COM DAVID STLUKA DAVID the vision and the patience (to the best ever, but one of the best games, then a school record, in­ succeed at the position). Un­ in the nation. She’s now at Notre cluding 71 starts. Another cousin, derstanding the tradition here is Dame. Diamond Stone, was the Player of something that you have to up­ “We’re extremely competitive; the Year in the state of Wisconsin hold.” we’d be in church and trying to and one of the top prep pros­ If you’re wondering what that compete to get the Bible first,” pects in the country. He’s headed entails, Ogunbowale singled out said Dare Ogunbowale who reluc­ to Maryland. the “toughness that comes with tantly conceded, “She’s definitely Two of Ogunbowale’s closest it” ― playing tailback for the a better basketball player than friends, outside of football, are Badgers. “You have to want to me. Throughout high school, I Sam Dekker, the first-round draft be the best, and me and Corey would say, ‘No, she’s not better.’ choice of the Houston Rockets, and Taiwan talk about that,” said But I’ve come to terms with that and Zak Showalter, a returning Ogunbowale, adding the “stan­ now and I can’t wait to watch her letterwinner with the Badgers. dard being the standard” is part play (for the Irish) to see what Ogunbowale spent time this sum­ of their commitment. “That’s how she can do.” mer with Dekker at his home in we see it because that’s how the Sheboygan. “I’m excited to see running backs who came before SHEEHY ON OGUNBOWALE: what they do this season,” he us saw it.” said of Dekker and Showalter. “HE’S REALLY ATHLETIC, AND Ogunbowale, a redshirt junior, “And I know they’re excited to HE’S A REALLY SMART GUY WHO stands out in this crowd because watch me play.” of his unique background. His PICKS UP THE GAME QUICKLY.” Ogunbowale didn’t play much dad, Greg, played football, the in­ through the first two games last ternational brand of football, soc­ The hoops connection has season. He was on special teams cer, in Nigeria. His mom, Yolan­ pretty deep roots. One of Ogun­ and an afterthought on defense, da, played softball at DePaul. bowale’s cousins, Ryan Evans, a spare cornerback. Lacking His sister, Arike, was not only the was a mainstay on the Wisconsin depth behind Gordon and Clem­ best high school basketball play­ basketball team from 2009 to ent ― Deal and Caleb Kinlaw er in Wisconsin last year, maybe 2013; he appeared in 138 career were injured; so were fullbacks LUCAS AT LARGE PAGE 2 OF 3 LUCAS AT LARGE BY MIKE LUCAS • UWBADGERS.COM Derek Watt and Derek Straus ― the field and replaced Clement definitely helped me out a lot.” then-UW coach Gary Andersen at tailback. On his first collegiate Off training wheels, but still raw, moved Ogunbowale to tailback touch, he picked up seven yards. he has been getting up to speed based on his effort in a “speed in He finished out the series, which by watching others. “I try to find space” drill. resulted in a Rafael Gaglianone running backs that are compara­ The only time that Ogunbowale field goal. And he finished the ble to my size,” said the 5-foot­ ran with the football at Milwau­ game, a 68-17 rout, with 14 11, 200-pound Ogunbowale, who kee Marquette high school was rushes for 94 yards. “That was has put on more than 10 pounds on kick returns. But he’s a fast a lot different than I’m running during the offseason. In general, learner; at that, he’s a biomedical now,” he said. he likes to watch elite NFL play­ engineering major. UW sopho­ The difference? “I’m definitely ers like LeSean McCoy and Jamal more nose guard Conor Sheehy more confident,” said Ogunbow­ Charles because “I’m just trying wasn’t surprised his old Mar­ ale, who gave a “shout-out” to to have more dimensions to my quette teammate could make the former UW running backs coach running style.” transition. “He’s really athletic,” Thomas Brown, now at Georgia, More importantly, Ogunbowale Sheehy said, “and he’s a really for teaching him the ropes last said that he hasn’t forgotten what smart guy who picks up the game year.

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